HP StorageWorks 2/16V Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide (53-1000019 - Page 236

15 Managing Zoning Offline • Zone Admin • Fabric Admin If you do not have one of these roles, you can launch the Zone Editor only in read-only mode. Admin Domain Considerations If an Admin Domain is removed from the fabric, Fabric Manager deletes all of the zone databases associated with that Admin Domain. Offline zone databases are associated with an Admin Domain number and not an Admin Domain name in the Fabric Manager zone database repository. If an Admin Domain is renamed (but the ID remains the same), the offline zone databases are still available. Limitations You can edit only one zone database at a time in the Zone Editor. If you want to manage LSAN zones on multiple fabrics, you must edit the LSAN zones in each fabric's zone database and then apply them at the same time later, or edit the zone database in one fabric and save a copy of that zone database to all other fabrics and apply them individually. Offline Zone Editing Offline editing refers to editing the zone database from the Fabric Manager repository. Online editing refers to editing the live zone database on a fabric (currently what you can do using Web Tools). You can do the following offline: • Export and import the entire zone database to and from local storage. • Edit zone information locally, without affecting the fabric. Zone changes are applied to the local copy and can be applied to the fabric at a later time. • Compare two zone databases and visually analyze the differences. • Merge two zone databases. Concurrent editing of the same zone database is permitted only from two different clients. When editing the live zone database, the last save operation overwrites the previously saved zone database. When you save a zone database to the Fabric Manager repository, the saved copy is added to the set of existing zone databases. This section contains the following procedures for managing zone databases offline: • "Editing a Zone Database Offline" on page 15-5 • "Copying a Zone Database from One Fabric to Another" on page 15-7 • "Comparing Two Zone Databases" on page 15-7 • "Merging Two Zone Databases" on page 15-11 • "Exporting and Importing a Zone Database" on page 15-13 • "Rolling Back Changes to the Zone Database on the Fabric" on page 15-14 • "Deleting a Zone Database from the Local Repository" on page 15-15 • "Undoing the Automatic Checkout of a Zone Database" on page 15-15 15-4 Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide Publication Number: 53-1000196-01-HP